Papers by Cynthia E Milton
The Americas, Apr 1, 2005
Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, 2002
Anthropologica
Este artículo analiza las corrientes opositoras a la memoria colectiva de la sangrienta guerra in... more Este artículo analiza las corrientes opositoras a la memoria colectiva de la sangrienta guerra interna del Perú (1980-2000) a través de un análisis de los actos de vandalismo perpetrados contra uno de los pocos sitios dedicados a la memoria en este país, El ojo que llora, ubicado en Lima. ‘Vandalismo’, en este artículo, es entendido como una forma de escritura (aunque violenta) de una visión distinta del pasado. Originalmente concebido como un espacio para recordar y rendir homenaje a las víctimas del conflicto armado, el sitio se ha convertido en un lugar para la confrontación de formas distintas de asumir el pasado. Como sitio de recuerdo y reivindicación de derechos humanos, y sobre todo como blanco de intentos de desfiguración permanente, El ojo que llora se ha convertido en un escenario en el que la presencia perdurable del pasado —con sus conflictivas tensiones— se hace visible para el público nacional e internacional. Así, se niega el cierre mismo que las narrativas del gobie...
Art as a Political Witness
In the hot morning sun on August 29, 2003, the central plaza of Huamanga (Ayacucho) began to fill... more In the hot morning sun on August 29, 2003, the central plaza of Huamanga (Ayacucho) began to fill with Peruvians from many parts of the country, awaiting a report that would tell them about what they had lived through. As midday approached, the heat was sweltering and there was hardly any room to move. Vendors sold ice cream and bottles of water to keep cool the fairly peaceful crowd. Then the commissioners filed onto a stage, symbolically shaped like the local art form of a retablo. The president of the truth commission, Dr. Salomon Lerner, began his speech evoking reciprocity, stating that the truth commissioners had listened to Peruvians for the last two years about the preceding twenty years of violence, and now it was time for them, the commissioners, to return to the audience what they had heard (Lerner Febres 2004, 163–4).
List of Illustrations List of Maps Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Witnesses... more List of Illustrations List of Maps Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Witnesses to Witnessing E.Lehrer & C.E.Milton PART I: BEARING WITNESS BETWEEN MUSEUMS AND COMMUNITIES 'We were so far away': Exhibiting Inuit Oral Histories of Residential Schools H.Igloliorte The Past is a Dangerous Place: the Museum as a Safe Haven V.Szekeres Teaching Tolerance through Objects of Hatred: The Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia as 'Counter-Museum' M.E.Patterson Politics of the Past: Remembering the Rwandan Genocide at the Kigali Memorial Center A.Sodaro PART II: VISUALIZING THE PAST Living Historically through Photographs in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Reflections on Kliptown Museum, Soweto D.Newbury Showing and Telling: Photography Exhibitions in Israeli Discourses of Dissent T.Katriel Visualizing Apartheid: Re-framing Truth and Reconciliation through Contemporary South African Art E.Mosely PART III: MATERIALITY AND MEMORIAL CHALLENGES Points of No Return: Cu...
FACETS, 2020
Various multiple-disciplinary terms and concepts (although most commonly “interdisciplinarity,” w... more Various multiple-disciplinary terms and concepts (although most commonly “interdisciplinarity,” which is used herein) are used to frame education, scholarship, research, and interactions within and outside academia. In principle, the premise of interdisciplinarity may appear to have many strengths; yet, the extent to which interdisciplinarity is embraced by the current generation of academics, the benefits and risks for doing so, and the barriers and facilitators to achieving interdisciplinarity, represent inherent challenges. Much has been written on the topic of interdisciplinarity, but to our knowledge there have been few attempts to consider and present diverse perspectives from scholars, artists, and scientists in a cohesive manner. As a team of 57 members from the Canadian College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists of the Royal Society of Canada (the College) who self-identify as being engaged or interested in interdisciplinarity, we provide diverse intellectual, cultura...
Antipoda Revista De Antropologia Y Arqueologia, Jul 1, 2007
Memory and Truth Telling in Post–Shining Path Peru, 2014
University of Toronto Quarterly, 2009
University of Calgary Press 2500 University Drive NW Calgary, Alberta Canada T2N 1N4 www- uofcpre... more University of Calgary Press 2500 University Drive NW Calgary, Alberta Canada T2N 1N4 www- uofcpress. com © 2007 by Hendrik Kraay. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means, ...
Art from a Fractured Past, 2014
The nascent fi eld of Memory Studies emerges from contemporary trends that include a shift from c... more The nascent fi eld of Memory Studies emerges from contemporary trends that include a shift from concern with historical knowledge of events to that of memory, from "what we know" to "how we remember it"; changes in generational memory; the rapid advance of technologies of memory; panics over declining powers of memory , which mirror our fascination with the possibilities of memory enhancement; and the development of trauma narratives in reshaping the past. These factors have contributed to an intensifi cation of public discourses on our past over the last 30 years. Technological, political, interpersonal, social and cultural shifts affect what, how and why people and societies remember and forget. This groundbreaking series tackles questions such as: What is "memory" under these conditions? What are its prospects, and also the prospects for its interdisciplinary and systematic study? What are the conceptual, theoretical and methodological tools for its investigation and illumination?
Memory Studies, 2011
This article parses opposing currents in Peru’s collective memory of their bloody internal war (1... more This article parses opposing currents in Peru’s collective memory of their bloody internal war (1980—2000) through an analysis of acts of vandalism perpetrated against one of the country’s few sites of memory, the Ojo que llora, in Lima. ‘Vandalism’ in this article is understood as a form of writing (though a violent one) of an alternative vision of the past. Originally intended as a space for remembering and paying homage to the victims of the armed conflict, the site has become a space for contesting disputed memories. As a site of performance of memory and human rights claims, and especially as the target of continued defacement, the Ojo que llora has become a stage on which the perduring presence of the past — in its still-conflictual strains — is made visible for national and international publics. It thus refuses the very closure that government narratives would impose, and thereby keeps open public engagement with the past. The ongoing conflicts over the past made visible at ...
Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, 2002
Hispanic American Historical Review, 2005
... could designate the difference between a Spaniard and an indigenous person.28 Don Julian Borj... more ... could designate the difference between a Spaniard and an indigenous person.28 Don Julian Borja had seen Juan de la Cruz shoeless and dressed in an Andean poncho for lack of means to dress more decently.29 Witnesses similarly described Juan Apolinario Fernández. ...
Ethnohistory, 2005
baseball rival, the Maple Leafs) sought to transform middle-class rational recreation into capita... more baseball rival, the Maple Leafs) sought to transform middle-class rational recreation into capitalist commodity production. But this book is an invaluable contribution. The Canadian novelist Guy Vanderhaeghe dedicates his recent award winning novel, The Last Crossing (Toronto, 2002), to "those local historians who keep the particulars of our past alive." For the Love of the Game is one such example, not only rich in analysis but in the details of how a small group of men transformed their communities through sport.
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 2007
Colonial Latin American Review, 2004
... Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press View all references, 9192). Poverty placed y... more ... Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press View all references, 9192). Poverty placed youth in harm's way. ... As an afterthought, he also sent copies to Otavalo and Ibarra. ... In the 1780s, a deceased bishop left an obra pía for the foundation of an orphanage. ...
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